{"id":23463,"date":"2014-04-09T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=23463"},"modified":"2014-04-04T22:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T05:30:43","slug":"gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-9-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-question-of-the-day-apr-9-arithmetic-and-critical-reasoning\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Question of the Day (Apr 9): Arithmetic and Critical Reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Math (DS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is <img src='https:\/\/s0.wp.com\/latex.php?latex=A%5E7+B%5E2+C%5E3+%3E+0&#038;bg=ffffff&#038;fg=000000&#038;s=0' alt='A^7 B^2 C^3 &gt; 0' title='A^7 B^2 C^3 &gt; 0' class='latex' \/> ?<\/p>\n<p>   1. $latex BC < 0$\n   2. $latex AC > 0$<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/m11-75085.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- C -<\/span> (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: rgb(141, 179, 226); border-top: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom: 4px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 5px; margin-left: 20px; font-size: 15px; font-family: Gergia,serif; font-weight: bold\">\n<div style=\"font-size: 19px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px\">GMAT Daily Deals<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding: 0pt 0pt 10px 20px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-type: disc\">Over 4 M students achieved educational & career goals thanks to Kaplan\u2019s unparalleled test prep courses. 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It is true that lightning occasionally causes fires, but faulty wiring and overloaded circuits cause far more fires and damage to equipment than lightning does.<\/p>\n<p>Erik\u2019s response fails to establish that Frieda\u2019s recommendation should not be acted on because his response<\/p>\n<p>(A) does not show that the benefits that would follow from Frieda\u2019s recommendation would be offset by any disadvantage<br \/>\n(B) does not offer any additional way of lessening the risk associated with lightning<br \/>\n(C) appeals to Frieda\u2019s emotions rather than to her reason<br \/>\n(D) introduces an irrelevant comparison between overloaded circuits and faulty wiring<br \/>\n(E) confuses the notion of preventing damage with that of causing inconvenience<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/forum\/frieda-lightning-causes-fires-and-damages-electronic-78797.html\">Question Discussion &amp; Explanation<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Correct Answer<\/strong> <span style=\"background-color:#fff;color:#fff\">- A -<\/span> (click and drag your mouse to see the answer)\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like these questions?<\/strong> Get the GMAT Club question collection: <a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/tests\/\">online at GMAT Club<\/a> OR <a href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=PJTlq5NYqfE&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=blog&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fgmat-toolkit%252Fid328345537%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30\">on your iPhone\/iPad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/category\/blog\/gmat-tests\/\"><strong>Browse all GMAT Questions of the Day<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to GMAT Question of the Day:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GMAT-Question-of-the-day&amp;loc=en_US\">E-mail<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/GMAT-Question-of-the-day\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math (DS) Is ? 1. $latex BC < 0$ 2. $latex AC > 0$ Question Discussion &amp; Explanation Correct Answer &#8211; C &#8211; (click and drag your mouse to see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9,1,721,718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat-tests","category-gmat","category-uncategorized","category-critical-reasoning-gmat","category-data-sufficiency-gmat","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23466,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23463\/revisions\/23466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}